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Foxit Reader?

• bmj 17y ago
  That's not the point--Mac _natively_ can render a PDF. You have to download a separate reader on a Windows machine.
  • RyanMcGreal 17y ago
    Consider: "Heck, you don't even need to build it into the OS. Just make it an optional download such as your Save As PDF add-in for Office." And: "Your customers are tired of the exploits and the complications that so many of today's PDF readers include." The authors are asking Microsoft to write an application that reads PDFs and isn't Adobe Reader. My point is that such an application already exists, is free to download and use, and is both faster and more secure than Adobe's reader.
    • blasdel 17y ago
      Foxit has had some pretty blatant security vulnerabilities -- straight up unprompted local code execution: http://blog.didierstevens.com/2010/03/29/escape-from-pdf/ http://blog.didierstevens.com/2010/03/29/escape-from-pdf/ It does a mediocre job of rendering, and isn't faster than Acrobat if you strip out all of Adobe's lame plugins (we put plugins in your plugins so you can extend while you embrace!)
      • RyanMcGreal 17y ago
        I didn't know that about Foxit Reader; thanks for sharing. Still, there's no reason, given the author's own requirements, why a PDF reader has to come from Microsoft rather than a competent third party. Granted, Microsoft has gotten better at security in recent years, but they're hardly exemplary at it.